Announcing The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery’s Writing Life, a book of essays to be published by Dundurn Press in February 2026.
I’m pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The Glory and the Dream: L.M. Montgomery’s Writing Life, a book of new essays that will be published by Dundurn Press in February 2026.
This book, the culmination of over twenty-five years of research, consists of ten essays that draw on rarely seen archival and heritage sources to offer new insights about Montgomery’s best-known work. Topics include her romance plots, the complex ways she depicted creative writers in her own fiction, the strategies she used to continue writing about Prince Edward Island after her move to Ontario, and the changes she made when she transplanted parts of her short stories into her books. It also contrasts how her death was interpreted by her family members and how her life was celebrated in obituaries and tributes, and it uncovers some of the ways that records of her private life survive in more than one version.
For more information, please see the main page for this book.
Synopsis
New revelations and insights about the writing life of the internationally renowned author of Anne of Green Gables.
L.M. Montgomery is known around the globe for the many books she published during her career, beginning with Anne of Green Gables. But what is far less known are the circumstances under which she wrote and the challenges she faced as a bestselling author.
Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre offers a never-before-seen look at her writing life, encompassing everything from fans to lawsuits to her creative choices, including an unlikely source of inspiration that enabled her to continue writing about her native Prince Edward Island after she moved to Ontario and her controversial decision to downplay Anne’s own writing ambitions.
Drawing on Montgomery’s journals and letters as well as on a slew of heritage sources that have rarely been part of the conversation, this book includes new insights and fascinating revelations about an author whose work continues to be meaningful to readers all over the world.
Benjamin Lefebvre is an L.M. Montgomery scholar whose previous books include the novel In the Key of Dale, an edition of L.M. Montgomery’s The Blythes Are Quoted, the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, and the book series The L.M. Montgomery Library. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
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